This trope occurs when whole characters manage to hide themselves away into incredibly small spaces. It could be inside a shoe, or a suitcase, a jewelry box, in a friend's pocket, or behind a telephone pole.

Where ever the hideaway is, it must be an area so small that even if the character were to scrunch up and get squeezed into the space, it would still be too small for them, making Hammerspace the only plausible explanation for how they could possibly fit.

Snoopy's doghouse in Peanuts. Although he always sleeps on top of it, it's clearly much bigger inside than its appearance would suggest, containing a pool table, television, and according to one strip, a sizable book collection. (He even had a Van Gogh in there until his doghouse was destroyed in a fire, but he quickly replaced it with an Andrew Wyeth. Just how he got them was never explained.)

Not the most extreme example, but in the first book of The Mysterious Benedict Society trilogy, Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance are forced to squeeze into a very small crate to hide from Mr. Curtain. The illustration does not at all look comfy.

The Fablehaven series has the transdimensional backpack with a storage room inside.

There was once an episode of Scrubs where Turk sneaked JD around in his backpack.

One common gag in Shake It Up involves cute kid Flynn stowing away in his sister CeCe's suitcase, even when it's filled to capacity.

In the Good Luck Charlie crossover episode, Flynn, along with Rocky, Ce Ce, and Deuce, all stowed away in Teddy's luggage. Rocky and Ce Ce hid in her suitcase, Flynn hid in her carry-on, and Deuce hid in her purse. Yeah, her purse.

Several types of Exalted have access to Charms that allow them to store objects Elsewhere. Lunars, however, can actually learn Charms that allow them to create tiny little dens in Elsewhere, safe places they can escape to on a moment's notice.

The Rope Trick spell in several editions of allows the caster and several friends to, well, climb up a rope and "vanish" into a small extradimensional space at the top that nonetheless will hold several people and potentially even allow them to pull up the rope after them as well, making for a quite safe retreat primarily limited by the spell's duration. It's even fairly low-level.

Other examples include Leomund's Tiny Hut, which creates a dwelling the size of a tent that an adventuring party can sleep in (providing heat and protection from the elements) and the most powerful version, Mordenkainen's Magnificent Mansion, which is an entire house created in an extradimensional space, usually used by wizards to conduct experiments in private. It includes Unseen Servants to help him, and also creates food. The downside is, the food isn't real, and anyone who lives on it while inside becomes incredibly hungry upon leaving, and has to eat immediately afterwards. (At least one module centered upon a wizard who was well-known for being a Big Eater because he secretly used this spell very frequently.)

A famous example is the notorious artifact Baba Yaga's Hut. It appears as a small, thatched hut with large legs resembling those of a giant chicken, and is usually dancing when found (indeed, whether it can be better described as a "magical item" or a "magical creature" is debatable). If a wizard of considerable skill convinces it to obey and enters it, it proves far bigger on the inside, being a rather large palace, with lavishly furnished bedchambers, banquet halls, an alchemy lab, a complete library, and even an observatory. One peculiar thing about the place is that while many of the interior rooms have windows, all of them offer the same view, that from the two windows on the front of the Hut that can be seen from outside. (One source suggests that the Hut has a hidden brain within it somewhere, and destroying it is the only way to destroy the Hut; likely, this is something that only Baba Yaga herself, it's true owner, knows the location of. All sources hint that the Hut likely has secrets known only to her, and the Game Master is not recommended to introduce the Hut into a campaign unless he is also willing to introduce her as a villain. The Hut is her home, and sooner or later, she will come to get it back.)

On Darkwing Duck, the alien superhero Comet Guy has a spacesphip that's small enough for him to wear as a helmet, and he can somehow fit himself and a passenger inside it.

Real Life

One variation on a very old joke about a scientist, a mathematician, and an engineer ends with the mathematician inside a can of beans.

Several people smuggled girlfriends/wives out of East Berlin in some impossibly tight spaces like a suitcase (or two), a photocopier and a hollowed-out car seat. Some of the more inventive contraptions are on display at the Berlin Wall Museum.

Professional contortionists can bend their bodies in ways that seem impossible, and use that skill to fit in small, equally impossible-seeming, spaces.

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